Man seriously wounded in Washington Heights shooting

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A man was shot and seriously wounded Friday morning in the South Side Washington Heights neighborhood.

The 22-year-old man was sitting in a car in the 1400 block of West 99th Street at 11:25 a.m. when he was shot by an armed male, according to Chicago Police.

He was shot multiple times in the torso and taken in serious condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.

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